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Corner; Kissena Boulevard (two works)
1974
This diptych presents two distinct urban street scenes rendered in oil on paper, each depicting the built environment with careful attention to light, shadow, and architectural detail. The left panel captures a narrow street corner dominated by bold yellow utility poles and signage, with vehicles and figures rendered in loose, impressionistic strokes against a moody palette of blues, browns, and ochres. The right panel opens onto a wider boulevard lined with commercial storefronts and street furniture, where pedestrians navigate a sunlit pavement bathed in warm, atmospheric light. Both works exemplify a mid century American approach to urban realism, balancing observed specificity with painterly abstraction. The materiality of oil on paper laid to panel creates a luminous, immediate quality characteristic of plein air study or rapid urban documentation.
- Medium
- oil on paper laid to panel
- Overall
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Rago Auctions
Notes
A Ménage with George Platt Lynes, Rago Auctions, 2026-05-01. Lot 262. Signed to lower edge of each work ‘Harold Bruder’.
🔨 Auction Lot
A Ménage with George Platt Lynes
May 1, 2026
Estimate: $1,200 – $1,800
Lot 262
For Sale
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